"Our erected wit maketh us to know what…" — Philip Sidney
"Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is."
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63 Quotes by Philip Sidney
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Shallow brooks murmur most, deep and silent slide away.
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To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle…
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Come Sleep! Oh Sleep, the certain knot of peace, the baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, the poor man's…
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The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.
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Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.
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Commonly they must use their feet for defense whose only weapon is their tongue.
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My true love hath my heart, and I have his
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A brave captain is as a root, out of which, as branches, the courage of his soldiers doth spring.
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The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well kept, since the rich keep the feasts and…
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It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.
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Cupid makes it his sport to pull the warrior's plum.
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High erected thoughts seated in the heart of courtesy.
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More Erected Quotes
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The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, 'Thus far and no farther.'
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes... The scholar struggles for the benefit of all humanity, sometimes to reduce physical…
— Santiago Ramon y Cajal
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I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
— Horace
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There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
— Zig Ziglar
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The First Amendment has erected a wall between church and state. That wall must be kept high and impregnable. We…
— Hugo Black
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A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus, and microbe.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with…
— John Dryden
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Science does not rest upon solid bedrock. The bold structure of its theories rises, as it were, above a swamp.…
— Karl Popper
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I have never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.
— Paul Harvey
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Pay no attention to critics. No one ever erected a statue to a critic
— Werner Erhard
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When we trace the part of which this terrestrial system is composed, and when we view the general connection of…
— James Hutton
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Books -lighthouses erected in the great sea of time -books, the precious depositories of the thoughts and creations of genius…
— Edwin Percy Whipple
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